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RED BANK: LGBTQ+ SAFETY PLAN LAUNCHES
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RED BANK: Borough becomes one of three Monmouth towns to adopt Safe Spaces program under which businesses can aid individuals threatened with bias crimes.
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October 7th, 2021 @ 1pm
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RED BANK: Reports of bike and iPhone thefts, plus arrests for assault and contempt kept police busy in September, latest blotter report shows.
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October 7th, 2021 @ 10am
RED BANK: CENTER REPAIR FORUM(S) POSSIBLE
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RED BANK: Council moves to hold public forums on planned repairs and changes to Senior Center, closed almost three years since a leak.
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October 7th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: PLASTIC FILM RECYCLING TO BEGIN
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RED BANK: Recycling of plastic film, such as newspaper bags and boat wrap, slated to begin under a one-year trial. Free receptacles available.
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October 6th, 2021 @ 4pm
RED BANK: Developer returns to zoning board Thursday with plan for 10 apartments on vacant, riverfront lot next door to public library.
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October 6th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: TOWNHOUSE WORK BEGINS
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RED BANK: After two false starts this century, construction has begun on 10 luxury townhouses on a downtown bluff overlooking the Navesink.
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October 5th, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: SCOUTS HELP RETIRE FLAGS
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RED BANK: Members of Tower Hill Boy Scout Troop 67 provide service in a flag-folding ceremony at Elks Club #233.
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October 5th, 2021 @ 6am
LITTLE SILVER: MURPHYS IN RUN FOR SCHOOLS
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LITTLE SILVER: Governor Phil Murphy and First Lady Tammy Murphy were among nearly 600 participants in Sunday's 5k fundraiser for borough schools. Photos.
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October 4th, 2021 @ 10am
RED BANK: HUNDREDS RALLY FOR WOMEN
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RED BANK: Hundreds march through downtown and rally at Riverside Gardens Park for women's reproductive rights ahead of new Supreme Court term.
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October 4th, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: SALLY BOY’S TAKES CORNER SPOT
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a high-visibility downtown vacancy gets filled, a CBD-and-cigar 'tasting room' opens and a bank branch closes.
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October 1st, 2021 @ 12pm
RED BANK: BROADWALK BEGINS EXTRA MONTH
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RED BANK: Amid a mix of praise and misgivings, Broadwalk begins an extension month, to be followed by major construction project.
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October 1st, 2021 @ 11am
RED BANK: AGENCY TO SEEK COUNCIL INPUT
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RED BANK: Redevelopment agency needs better outreach about its work, and council input on what that work should be, officials said Tuesday.
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September 29th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: Planning board hearing on Saxum's controversial request for a rezoning of VNA site has been postponed again.
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September 28th, 2021 @ 3pm
RED BANK: EARLY VOTING ADDS THIRD OPTION
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RED BANK: Beginning October 23, voters will have a new option for casting ballots: early, in-person voting at 10 polling places in Monmouth County.
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September 27th, 2021 @ 2pm
RED BANK: THOUSANDS PACK OYSTERFEST
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RED BANK: Ideal weather puts thousands in a partying mood as Oysterfest returns after a pandemic-skipped year. redbankgreen has beaucoup pix.
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September 27th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: KNITTING ‘STUDIO’ SET TO OPEN
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a yarn store, er, studio, is set to get knitting, and a hair salon's barbers and customers get more elbow room.
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September 24th, 2021 @ 10am
RED BANK: SUN TO SHINE ON OYSTERFEST
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RED BANK: After skipped year, Guinness Oyster Festival set to return with sunshine in forecast Sunday. Here's what you need to know if planning to attend.
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September 24th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: REPAIR WORK CONTINUES
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RED BANK: Work continues on replacing utility pole downed by truck where southbound Route 35 meets Water and Wall streets.
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September 23rd, 2021 @ 6am
RED BANK: CAR STRIKES HOME
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RED BANK: No injuries as car strikes home, narrowly missing gas meter.
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September 23rd, 2021 @ 5am
RED BANK: SEASONS ON THE WING
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RED BANK: Maple Cove provided a summer-ending birder's bounty Tuesday. Here's the weather forecast for the Greater Green as autumn arrives.
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September 22nd, 2021 @ 6am
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(G&G) DOG DAYS OF SUMMER
A solid lunchtime line at the G&G hot dogs truck on Shrewsbury Avenue on Monday afternoon. Driving this stretch of road when  G&G i ...
RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.